This web site presents the poster exhibition, "Science Bringing
Nations Together", which has been prepared by the European Organisation
for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Joint
Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. The exhibition
attempts to show how individuals and groups from all over the
world have worked towards common scientific goals independently
of political differences, often across almost closed borders,
and how this has led to mutual understanding and friendship, not
only between scientists, but also between nations.

CERN was founded in 1954 and, as one of the first international
scientific organizations created, it became a model for those
which followed. Shortly afterwards, in 1956, JINR was established
to unify nuclear research in the Soviet Union and other socialist
republics. Scientific co-operation and collaboration in Particle
Physics have stimulated understanding among people of many nations;
initially within Europe, more
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